A car has been rescued from a beach in Southend-on-Sea after narrowly avoiding being washed out by high tides.

Footage from Shoeburyness shows the blue car dangerously in the water while waves lap up the sides.

Officers attended the beach at around 3.30am (May 18) after it was washed into the water from the slipway on Ness Road opposite the Harvester restaurant.

Police assisted the driver recover his vehicle before it was fully washed out into the River Thames estuary and out to sea.

Essex Police's Roads Policing Sergeant, Colin Shead, posted the footage on his Twitter account at 6.55am, saying: "We managed to tow the vehicle off of the beach and avoided the car being washed out to sea. Thankfully nobody was injured."